234: ‘Welcome to Dongletropolis’ With Merlin Mann
The Talk Show With John Gruber
John Gruber
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🗓️ 9 November 2018
⏱️ 173 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | John Crier, where I was so excited yesterday. I was in receipt of many exciting things. Oh, yeah from China |
| 0:05.0 | Oh, yeah, many Chinese things arrived in my house tomorrow at yesterday and it's very early for me |
| 0:09.6 | I slept in a little bit some kind of out of it. Um, yeah, so I was really excited |
| 0:13.7 | I got the new big boy iPad and I hurriedly I said they said honey you watch watch watch watch your some cartoons |
| 0:20.8 | I'm gonna go the office and |
| 0:22.8 | I'm gonna go restore my iPad and I got there and I went hmm because I have |
| 0:28.4 | a retina 5k iMac from two three years ago. Hmm, the first retina 5k iMac. Yeah, that's I still got that and I |
| 0:36.6 | I stood there like like my late stepfather holding a cord with two different things on a going hmm |
| 0:42.3 | Looking back and forth and I realized at my office as it stands, I did not have any way to go from this particular machine |
| 0:49.2 | to USB-C that I know of |
| 0:52.0 | It's it is funny. I don't have that either. I've I've got a bunch of |
| 0:57.0 | I got my front pocket of my backpack is |
| 1:00.4 | I got one of the back. That's where you stored dongle town. Yeah, it's it's a very small |
| 1:05.4 | Pocket but I now have many many dongles and it's not be not even all of them are USB-C related |
| 1:12.1 | They just have right I decided that I would I'm never gonna get caught short again without a dog right right |
| 1:17.9 | I have a bag that up until this week was real good for that purpose |
| 1:22.7 | It's just that you know you're the one who studied math. You're the engineer, but my if you think about it used to be mostly as simple as |
| 1:29.4 | You go on the road with whatever and you need |
| 1:32.8 | Some kind of little plug thing that goes from USB-A to 30 pin and |
| 1:38.8 | Now over time as I got more other devices non-Apple devices that became |
| 1:43.8 | Micro but usually mini USB mini you got account for that so in that case I always get them wrong |
| 1:48.9 | Whatever the one is this this flattened popular I |
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